That's wat my ballet teacher says too it's not really a joke he was telling the kid that it should be the other leg😅

i swear every dance teacher uses those words 😭

I've been told things like that so much in dance and theatre cause my brain decides to not work the worst moments 😭

Yup! Dance teacher here! Forever my favorite phrase to use in and out of the studio 😅

Bro my dance teacher says that too. And then my stupid mind doesnt work right and i mess up 😅😅

Agreed as a dancer myself

I go to ballet that’s so true

My dance teacher irl😂

This was exactly like my ballet teacher 😢😂

I'm nowhere near what ballerinas do with their body, but I've just started taking horse riding lessons again, now that I have the means to do it. And I can sense the burn in my body, where muscles are getting a workout, but I love it because it means I'm working with the horse and training my body. P S.: at the moment of this comment, I just came out of a several months long hiatus on physical exercise because of various reasons. Feeling that I need to be more fit to ride better, and be a better rider for the horse who is carrying me, only encourages me to work out more in general.

IKR

SAME 😭

followed by “youre very tall” 😭😂😂

💀😂

well he's right she is really tall for her age

Adorable 😭 I hope they don't put too much pressure on her ankles

But she’s so tall

@@arandomgirl130😂😂😂

Facts, this the healthy way of training, not forcing turnout or flexibility just teaching to push yourself and work hard to make progress

He also uses humor - which keeps the kids lighthearted AND serious at the same time. YOU CAN TELL HE IS A DAD! Great job Slavomir! We love you!

​@@PaigeNewberryexactly! His personality is brilliant!

Seriously, big kudos to him🙌 I always see those extreme stretching Chinese videos of ballet and how almost every single one of the kids were having mental breakdowns, and not ONCE did their trainers encouraged them (I know because I speak Chinese). Yet what baffles me is how half of the people in the comment sections were claim that it was okay and you need to sometimes put CHILDREN through "pain dan hardships" so they'll "become brighter"

@@xxecxx_ljx8372 Unfortunately education by trauma is still widely practiced all over the world.

😂😂😂

Yeah like which leg did she start with if he had her switch twice??😂

He asked her once and she was confused, so he clarified. You can see more Slawomir (instructor) at evanysphotography on youtube

@@user-EMM366she switched arms instead of legs 😭

​@@user-EMM366 she didn't switch twice when he said it the first time she switched arms not legs

Actually Gracie is the older ballerina, before the little one. If you listen again, he says about her being so tall. I'm taking a guess that she was probably there to help in some capacity.

No Gracie is actually the kid that was next to the tall dancer , why? Cuz all of the dancers are kids and the tall dancer is definitely not a kid , plus he was just joking with her ​@@nancyt.7134 (Yt istg don't delete the comment or hide it pls)

​@@nancyt.7134 No I'm pretty sure the older ballerina is Tessa...the tiny child is Gracie

That's mean but true

Its sarcasm 😂

That little nugget was adorable.🥺

literally me🥲

Me😢😂

I’m sorry I ruined the perfect 888 likes 😭

Fr like he's serious but funny af at the same time

UR PROFILE SLAYYYSSS😂

@@liaSlothAdventure23 thx

@@RAT_me BRO I HAVE THE EXACT SAME PICTURE SAVED IN MY GALLERY RN 💀💀💀💀

Lmfao I’m permanently 4’11, I always feel like Gracie compared to everyone around me

​@@carbs_r_delishsame, i'm 4'11

Exactly, perfect balance. So rare and valuable 🥰

I think this is called the iron fist in a velvet glove.

I had a teacher like that and I loved her so much! We all danced better when she corrected us. when she told you it was good, it was GOOD!

He has the rizz

Yes please!!!!

Yes please!!

or they're themselves, not future other dancers

​@@H3speria. I think they meant to say that they're going to be the ones featured in these videos in the future, just like our Maya, Melanie, Leo, etc.

You are. It means u stretching yourself more

At risk of being too real in the KZfaq comments I'd say there's a fine line there. Kids often conflate being uncomfortable for any duration of time as pain and so in that regard, yeah they need to be "in pain". But no it shouldn't actually hurt nor should they be pushed through real pain

@@starrylane5071that’s so true, kids tend to not be able to articulate tension and pain

​@@starrylane5071this!!!! I always have to try and explain to my younger dancers that stretching and the road to increasing our flexibility may sometimes be a new and uncomfortable one, that they may feel things in their body they never felt before, but that it should never HURT. For the real little ones we call it "stretchy ouch" or "REAL ouch" lmao

Well I did artistic gymnastics for 10 years, and when you are practicing flexibility and technique there is a good “pain”. Is a discomfort showing you are working the right muscles. Ofc, teachers should keep an eye on pain over wrong movements. But, here I can see what he means, they are stretching they need to feel that discomfort. It’s like the sore you feel after a good gym day.

Mine too, especially after doing a jillion of them. I found that doing a few minutes of varied ankle-foot rotations and flexes (seated on the floor or a chair and standing at the bar) before and after stops/lessens the cramping. Be sure to keep your leg warmers on as long as you can too.

Why do you have to make everything about race

@@blackberrylipstickbecause ballet still has a bias towards white people. It’s a sport that majority white people do, so much so that even after people of various skin tones are professionally doing ballet, they still have to dye or put makeup on their ballet shoes to make them match their skin tone as the normal pointe short still is for white woman. Also it’s important for people to see people like them in different professions; representation matters

@@blackberrylipsticksociety made it about race, so now we need to acknowledge and encourage the diversity in previously very racist areas of life. People like you add nothing to the conversation because you should already know the answer to your question

@@sarahwenger4479It’s a European dance form. Do you expect traditional African dance styles to be diverse, too? It’s amazing no one ever calls for more diversity in basketball enough though one race is massively overrepresented.

Ballet desperately needs more boys!!! My daughter is in ballet and there’s one boy in the whole company!!

Yeah, you'll get stronger!

Same. When I was actively competing/training it didn’t matter how much I worked over however many years I did it, pointing my feet as hard as I could like you’re supposed too resulted in my toes cramping up

Mine did, too, right in the arches, until I started wearing barefoot shoes (or well-fitting shoes) regularly and doing foot strengthening exercises.